Re: Multipage CForm using Ajax - Non ascii Characters

Hi Robby,

Thanks for your reply.

The problem is that I don't have any client side scripting. I am using CForms to allow the site 
owner to populate a database. The data is then used in a number of different xhtml pages.

Kind regards

Peter

On 14/01/2013 15:55, Robby Pelssers wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> NoÂ…    encodeURIComponent should go in the client javascript.
>
> And in flowscript you have to decode the parameter value again.
>
> importClass(Packages.java.net.URLDecoder);
>
> var decodedvalue = URLDecoder.decode(cocoon.request.getParameter(“someparam”);
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Robby
>
> *From:*Peter Sparkes [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 4:45 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: Multipage CForm using Ajax - Non ascii Characters
>
> Thanks Greg and Robby for your replies.
>
> Unfortunately I can't get it to work. I assume encodeURIComponent goes into the flowscript:
>
> function multipage() {
> var lodgeId = cocoon.parameters.lodgeId;
> cocoon.request.setAttribute("lodgeId", lodgeId);
>
> var documentURI = cocoon.parameters["documentURI"];
> // parse the document to a DOM-tree
> var document = loadDocument(documentURI);
>
> //document = decodeURIComponent (document);
>
> // get the documentURI parameter from the sitemap which contains the location of the form 
> definition (model)
> var definitionURI = cocoon.parameters["definitionURI"];
>
> //create new form
> var form = new Form(definitionURI);
>
> // get the documentURI parameter from the sitemap which contains the location of the binding file
> var bindingURI = cocoon.parameters["bindingURI"];
> form.createBinding(bindingURI);
>
> // bind the document data to the form
> form.load(document);
>
> // show the form to the user until it is validated successfully
> form.showForm("lodgemul-display-pipeline.jx");
>
> // bind the form's data back to the document
>
> form.save(document);
>
> // save the DOM-tree back to an XML file,
> document = encodeURIComponent(document);
> saveDocument(document, documentURI);
>
> // show the xml generated from the form
> var success ='/B&B/England/Devon/Bideford/'+ lodgeId+'.html';
> //cocoon.redirectTo('/office/' + lodgeno+'.htm');
> cocoon.sendPage(success);
> }
>
> document = encodeURIComponent(document); produces the following error when I submit the completed form
>
>     Can't find method org.apache.cocoon.xml.dom.DOMStreamer.stream(string).
>
> What am I doing wrong
>
> Peter
>
> On 14/01/2013 14:27, gelo1234 wrote:
>
>     Ajax calls use default character encoding defined by HTTP 1.1 spec (which iso-8859-1, not
>     UTF-8). You have to encode BEFORE sending and decode AFTER retrieving those strings.
>
>     Encode with encodeURIComponent, decode with decodeURIComponent (if Javascript).
>
>     Greetings,
>
>     Greg
>
>
>
> On 14/01/2013 14:22, Robby Pelssers wrote:
>
>     You will probably need to encode the characters if you make an ajax callÂ…
>
>             var  somevalue = encodeURIComponent(“this is a value to be encoded”);
>
>     Robby
>
>     *From:*Peter Sparkes [mailto:[email protected]]
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 3:18 PM
>     *To:* Cocoon users
>     *Subject:* Multipage CForm using Ajax - Non ascii Characters
>
>     Hi
>
>     Cocoon 2.11
>
>     I have implemented a multipage CForm which uses Ajax. The form is based on the example at
>
>     http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/cocoon21/samples/blocks/forms/do-multipage.flow
>
>     The  form works fine except that it does not save non ascii characters correctly eg.
>
>     É €  ç  £
>
>
>
>     If I use one very long form without Ajax the above characters are correctly saved
>
>     Help please, How can I fix this problem
>
>
>     Peter
>